Longest survival time

[timtek]

My best character is my current one. It’s winter day 8 I believe. Started him in .9RC, everything default except I play no skill rust. I fuckin hate rust.

[Inadequate]

My best character has survived for a year and a half on 0.8, with 15-day seasons. Honestly, at a certain point simple day-to-day survival isn’t particularly difficult. Hole up in a mansion/hotel or near a good water source, spend your days chopping trees for wood and making charcoal and skewers for smoked meat. You can survive practically indefinitely after a point. No skill rust, though.

[Wuzzy]

Hehe, there is some truth in that. The reason I die is due to mostly thanks to my own stupidity by walking into situations I could have easily avoided. I also think, if I have passed a certain point in the game, I could theoretically survive as long as I wanted but then where’s the thrill of the game then by staying home all time? ;D In practice, I survive much shorter then. xD
Speaking of dying: Today I lost my character in a lab on Summer 13, year 1. Oh, I always fall for those secubots, lol.

[dgroves]

Longest survival so far: Autumn of year 1, day 2, at 1637.
Still alive? No
Version: .9
Settings:

• Auto-safemode on by default
• 24 hour time
• Force Y/N prompts
• Sidebar style (Narrow)
• Use Tiles (False)
• Skill Rust (Off)

I died in a lab by being shot.

[Roame]

Most of my characters die from what I call “I-want-to-start-over-itus”, usually as an unfortunate development of the “I-have-a-new-build-idea” virus.

That said, my oldest character lasted 10 days. He “died” to a corrupt save file (I learnt my lesson: back those saves up!) This was a few days ago on Stable 0.9.

[1D-1_T]

Due to my being new, my longest life was about seven days. I was coming back from a night raid, and there was a spider, which I ran away from, only to get my head kicked in by a moose. This was in 0.8

Nowadays I’m accomplishing more, but not surviving as long, for some reason.

[Derschlact]

Longest survival so far: approximately 6 days
Still alive? Nopers!
Version: 0.9 Stable
Settings: frail, classic zombies, static spawn, no npcs whatsoever

On the seventh day, I got cocky and attempted to assault a bear with molotovs.
…needless to say, it did not end well.

And strangely enough I seem to live longer when I play frail.
THE GAME MUST BE TELLING ME SOMETHING :I

[ClusterDSA]

Longest survival so far: Autumn, Day 10, Year 1
Still alive? Yes
Version: 0.9 experimental
Settings: No skill rust, no NPC’s, all others default.

Are NPC’s functional again? Last I heard they were buggy which is why I have them off.

Edit: FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK game crashed on me and I reverted to Spring day 3…so much work is gone…

[jimboblordofeskimos]

Longest survival so far: Winter, Day 12, Year 1
Still alive? Yes
Version: 0.9 experimental
Settings: No skill rust, no NPC’s, city size 5, 20 day seasons, all others default.

First char in a while ive decided to survive long term with, others usually go down to new versions. Freakish powerful though, been living in a light power armor suit for a few weeks now, using sausages and eating wood to keep running. I think between the power armor, dodge at something like 15 and the CBM that can knock down walls im pretty much invincible.

[Zireael]

[quote=“Roame, post:9, topic:4135”]Most of my characters die from what I call “I-want-to-start-over-itus”, usually as an unfortunate development of the “I-have-a-new-build-idea” virus.

That said, my oldest character lasted 10 days. He “died” to a corrupt save file (I learnt my lesson: back those saves up!) This was a few days ago on Stable 0.9.[/quote]

I like those neologisms

[John_Candlebury]

Longest survival: 124 days 20 day seasons made it to Autumn 6 Second year)
Version: 0.7?
Skill rust: capped
Name: John Candlebury (YES they are all named like that)
Death Cause: Update to 0.8 and boringness

[Taraq]

Time: Summer, day 2, year 1.
Version: 0.9 stable
Skill Rust: Default
Still Alive: Yes!

[Chaz]

Longest survival: 6 days
Version: 0.9 Stable
Settings: Square distances, 25 points, Skill Rust OFF, Spawn Density 0.5
Name: Chaz (This is the name for all my characters)
Still alive?: Nope! I caught Roame’s “I-want-to-start-over-itus”, combined with a lethal case of “the fuckits”. In essence, I yelled “FUCK IT!” and charged deep into the nearest city, before being swarmed by zombies from a hotel and dying.

[VampyreLord]

Longest survival so far: Spring, day 51, year 1
Still alive?Yes
Version: 0.9 Experimental
Settings: IntCap, Season length set to 90, spawn rate: 2.3, city size: 4.

[youtoo]

most people turn off or lower down skill erosion. if that is off, you will get to a point where you are rambo pretty easily. even if you dont do that if you get CBMs and mutations you will get to the point where it is significant effort to die.

if you make it through about 4-6 weeks you should be strong enough to survive forever. this is doubly true for people who lower down skill erosion since you can max everything. even if you don’t the CBMs, mutatons, having a car to run away, and guns makes you pretty much unstoppable unless you do something horribly and I mean absolutely horribly wrong like run over 3 land mines.

most of the challenge is in the early game. I was turning up zombie spawns early, but I dont like how it lowers other spawns.

[Lainge]

Longest survival so far: Can’t remember but most recent, Spring 8, Year 2
Still alive? Technically yes?
Version: 0.9 "Stable"
Settings: Dynamic Spawn, City size 8

Increased my strength, dex and int by 4 points each in the early game thanks to a special something, managed to install pretty much every CBM and had full night vision. Luckiest + best character to date… but the city size thing was overwhelming me, I couldn’t not be in cities. As soon as I left one, bam right back into a city. It was hell.
That plus even a tiny nudge on anything (not counting mobs) with my armoured truck absolutely destroyed the frame/reinforced windows.
And then the final nail in the coffin, I got to about 170mbs of map data and now no matter what I do it crashes if I try to escape a certain area and sometimes not even loading before crashing.
So no, he’s not dead.
But it’s as good as.
I don’t really feel like playing anymore knowing that if that map size gets too big it’ll just crash repeatedly.

[Slax]

Two years or so, then the need fur suicide kicked in.

Limped around with broken legs for a season or two.

[Sarge]

Longest survival so far: 20 days
Still alive? Yes
Version: 0.9 Stable
Settings: 20 day seasons, 5.0 zombie quantity, 5 city size, IntCap skill rust

[Bonevomit]

Longest survival so far: 148 Days
Still alive? Nope.
Version: 0.9.
Settings: Int uncapped, 90 day seasons, started in autumn, round everything
Death Cause: Car accident.

Was getting pretty boring anyway. This game needs a goal to work towards.

[Sarge]

Was getting pretty boring anyway. This game needs a goal to work towards.

Without a doubt. I’m at day 25 or so and finding it incredibly hard to continue. I am sincerely hoping that factions will change this. Faction wars and associated dynamics with complex and long term goals should be great for meta game. Once NPC’s are sorted, which will be a prerequisite for factions I would assume, it should help a great deal too.